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Plot Summary:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic, suspense, spooky, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 626
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 440
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Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 766
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 752
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IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 408
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 714
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IMDB Votes: 665
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 931
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 238
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 385
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IMDB Votes: 861
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 922
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 469
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Votes: 997
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IMDB Votes: 705
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Votes: 7000
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